Louis Audemars, made for Breguet. A fine and rare 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases

STAMPED WITH LOUIS AUDEMARS' HALLMARKS, NO. 14'269, AND SIGNED BREGUET, NO. 2815, MANUFACTURED IN 1887, SOLD TO BREGUET AND SOLD BY BREGUET TO M. SEMAMA ON 4 SEPTEMBER 1900

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Louis Audemars, made for Breguet. A fine and rare 18K pink gold hunter case minute repeating perpetual calendar keyless lever watch with moon phases
Stamped with Louis Audemars' hallmarks, No. 14'269, and signed Breguet, No. 2815, manufactured in 1887, sold to Breguet and sold by Breguet to M. Semama on 4 September 1900
Mechanical jewelled keyless lever movement, repeating on two steel hammers, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Roman numerals, four subsidiary dials for month and leap year, day, date and moon phases with lunar calendar and constant seconds, circular case, inlaid pink and yellow gold initials MS to the front, repeating slide and chronograph button in the band, case stamped with Louis Audemars' hallmarks and numbered 14'269, cuvette signed Breguet and numbered both 2815 and 14'269
56 mm. diam.

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Lot Essay

The present watch is a very fine example of a complicated timepiece made by Louis Audemars for his faithful client, Breguet in Paris. According to the Archives of Montres Breguet, it was made in 1897, finished by Breguet and sold on 4 September 1900 for the amount of 3,600 Francs to M. Samama.

The case is stamped with Louis Audemars' shield-shaped hallmarks (see Louis-Benjamin Audemars - His Life and Work by Hartmut Zantke, pp. 182 - 187). For a comparable watch sold by Louis Audemars to Breguet in 1882 see p. 408, op. cit..

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